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The jury had been treated over the last six weeks to a smoke screen, she said.

She warned of the danger of contamination of evidence and said that a Bryn Alyn home survivor’s web site, which closed down before the trial, had spoke about “all singing from the same hymn sheet” and “sticking together.”

There was talk of compensation, the top 16 abusers named by a number of people, and “similar fact evidence which got John Allen convicted last time”.

There was a risk of contamination at what she called “an Aladdin’s Cave” where people could pick up “a tailor made allegation.”

She suggested the complainants were making copy cat allegations.

The jury were being asked to say there was no smoke without fire.

“The greatest risk is not from the allegations but all this nonsense you have heard of no smoke without fire,” she said.

If he had been a paedophile for years why had he not been arrested and put on trial before?

Despite all previous investigations, nothing had been found on him on arrest, there was nothing on his computer, there was no connection to paedophiles, and no connection to John Allen.

How would he have been able to conceal a double life for years?

Miss Griffiths said the allegations against Anglesea deserved no place in a criminal trial and claimed the police were desperate for a conviction.